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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285611
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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that a ordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country di erences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545787
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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555356
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Marry your like : assortative mating and income inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - 2014
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In...
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012
quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330215
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No child left behind: Universal child care and children's long-run outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285555
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012
quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290766
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No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545792
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
-scale, publicly subsidized child care in Norway affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as adults. We find that mean … earnings distribution, and sizable below the median. This is an important observation since previous empirical studies of …
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